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Much of anything coming out of England s file under corruption these days. I think they are doomed. All that anti-us crap, global warming crap, listing left, that bird will not fly.
The social workers who ignored evidence should be jailed along with with the perverts in question.
Period. Were it not for the social workers delibrate choices to not do their job, those children woudl not have come to harm. If a Doctor kows of a harmful condition, is in a position to treat ti, and leaves the patient to die instead, he is held liable. Why not the social and giovernment workers?
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The first Governance problem began way back when some Homos pushed their agenda or had their first "PC Bill Of Goods" recognized by Government and subsequently that forced other Government agencies to recognize an equivalence between homosexuals and Heterosexuals.
BREAKING NEWS, There isn't an equivalence in nature. It's a fag made corruption of the first order.
Here's an anecdotal example: And every Heterosexual Rantburger can relate.
In the most horn dog period of my life,
teen-ager thu thirty, I never hung around women's bathrooms. or bushes, non of us kids did this crap.
Well according to the National Newspapers and TV this sh*it take place all over, it's like the local park near here, where all us parents and grand parents makes sure to keep all the kids away from, Because Faggots are alway Trolling the Park inspite of the Cops sweeping it and arresting the bumbs on a regular basis.
And this is a good neighborhood on the Coast.
This is old news to RBees, any man must eventually be able to learn to work around absolute babes and get a days work done inspite their scent, hair, lovely curves, voice, skin and essence. He must tame his desires, and be in control.
Unfortunately homos act like homos no matter where they are, and act out crazy sh*t you see in the news papers all the time.
If you had to; which would you trust leaving your kids with:
a strange Heterosexual Couple?
or a
a strange Homosexual Couple?
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/my 2¢,
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Incredibly poor quality Chinese made condoms are partially responsible for the AIDS epidemic that is taking place. After the Henan "bloodheads" AIDS crisisthe largest medically caused AIDS epidemic in the worldthat infected tens of thousands, China tried to hush it up and took no substantive measures. Instead they threatened Western AIDS drug manufacturers that if China was not given preferential pricing they would simply reverse engineer the compounds.
Evidently, Phizer, Merk and the gang told China to piss up a rope. China's own versions of these powerful drugs produce such violent side-effects that many patients stop taking them.
Due to China's inaction in the Henan province many thousands of AIDS infected people fled to the larger urban centers to find work. They also fled the intense stigma that comes with being an AIDS patient. Since only one in five (20%) of Chinese people know about safe sex or how to properly use a condom, little has been done to stop the AIDS epidemic.
While the government distributes free condoms, theylike the ones in disputehave a high failure rate. High quality condoms can cost between a day's or even a week's wages.
I was wondering what they dumped him for...
The decorated ex-commander of the historic USS Constitution may be forced to walk the plank after a naval hearing today on charges he assaulted a sailor and forced him to lie in a report, in a scandal that could sink his career for good.
Four months after he was fired, Thomas C. Graves, 43, of Marblehead will stand before the military equivalent of a grand jury, accused of assaulting a petty officer who, Graves lawyer said, failed to note in the ships morning report that a shipmate had been late. Graves faces charges of assault, cruelty and maltreatment, forcing someone to falsify a record and making a false statement. He is accused of having the petty officer correct the report and of denying that he hit the officer.
The Navy lost confidence in his ability, so his career could be over, Navy spokesman Mike Giannetti said.
Graves lawyer, Charles Gittins, said, The petty officer was incompetent and, in frustration, the captain handed the papers back to him, allegedly hitting him in the chest with them. In his mind, he didnt hit the sailor. Aye, aye, Mr. Queeg...
But Giannetti said, Its my understanding there were witnesses. Ooooops...
If convicted of all charges at a general court-martial, he faces up to 11 years and six months in prison.
In 2005, Graves assumed command of the 210-year-old national landmark, a job considered a plum position, given the ships role in the War of 1812, when it became known as Old Ironsides because British cannonballs were unable to penetrate its wooden hull.
He was fired in May, two months before his two-year term was to expire, for what the Navy described at the time as an administrative matter. Commanders may be fired for many reasons, including failing to enforce safety rules and fostering a poor command climate. Because of the significance of the Constitution, typically (a commanders) record and performance would be heavily scrutinized before they were appointed, Giannetti said.
A 1987 U.S. Naval Academy graduate, Graves served as the engineering officer on the USS Underwood and the USS Philippine Sea and was promoted to commander in 2003. He has received several awards, including two Navy Achievement Medals and the Navy Meritorious Service Medal.
In addition to the military lawyer the Navy has provided him, Graves hired Gittins, who has represented high-profile defendants in military courts-martial, including Lt. Ilario Pantano, a Marine accused of shooting unarmed Iraqi captives; Spc. Charles Graner, who was involved in the Abu Ghraib scandal; and Maj. Harry Psycho Schmidt, who bombarded a platoon of Canadians in Afghanistan after being told to hold his fire. Pantano was acquitted, and the charges against Schmidt were dropped. Harry "Psycho" Schmidt. He sounds like a fun guy...
Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers...
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They can also fine him some of his pension. I knew a guy that happened to (although his offenses were way worse than what is mentioned here).
BTW, strictly speaking CDR Graves was the Commanding Officer of the USS Constitution, not the "chief".
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Whoopdy doo. Let me know when the Isetta races start.
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At least the body won't rust (or dent) on their journey. The P601 Trabant's body was made of a composite plastic, rubber, fish scales, straw or whatever they could find. Internal parts were difficult to replace as they never seemed to use the same item from week to week at the factory so they were mostly "home repaired". It hosted a whopping 26-HP powerplant that supposedly ran on gasoline, but I'm told could run on just about any combustible fuel.
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You sure? The underside looks like it comes pre-rusted.
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I enjoyed this excerpt:
These [Russian] officers, however, were an exception to the rule. All along the way, the three men encountered an endless parade of welcoming, sometimes surprised, faces gaping back at the garishly decorated car. They watched, took pictures, jumped around, shook their heads, Kozel says. They could not understand that we Europeans would spend so much money to drive this old crappy car to see this part of the world. After turning back at Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the car failed to start on its own power from Ukraine to Prague. The men, undaunted, pushed the car every time they started it. We always tried to park it downhill, Růička says.
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Reminds me of what Click and Clack said about the Chevy Vega: it was built out of compressed rust.
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An old Car and Driver article talks about the pain and agony they went through trying to get approval to import a Trabant; seems that that is ( so far) the only car specifically black listed by the Feds. They got an exception when they declared it would go into a museum and rendered non-operational.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Long confined to the mountains, Japanese leeches are invading residential areas, causing swelling, itching and general discomfort with their blood-thirsty ways. Yamabiru, or land leeches, have become a problem in 29 of Japan's 47 prefectures, according to the Institute for Environmental Culture, a private research facility in Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo.
The little suckers are riding into towns and villages, hitching lifts on deer and boar whose numbers have grown due to re-forestation and dwindling rural populations. Once there, the leeches, which measure in at about 1.5 cms before a meal, take to feasting on warm human flesh.
"Yamabiru will climb into people's socks and stay for about an hour, growing five to 10 times in size. Unlike with water leeches, people don't immediately realise they've been bitten. Only later when they see their blood-soaked feet, do they realise what has happened," said Shigekazu Tani, the institute's director. "The real problem is that the bleeding won't stop and the affected area swells up and really itches," he added.
The best way to deal with the tiny vampires?
"We can cut down trees and mow long grass to dissuade wild animals from coming too close, and create sunny habitats that are inhospitable to leeches. We can also spread pesticides that kill the leeches," Tani said. "Or we can just tough it out."
DENVER - A 20-year government effort to restore the population of an endangered native trout in Colorado has made little progress because biologists have been stocking some of the waterways with the wrong fish, a new study says.
Ooops.
Advances in genetic testing helped biologist discover the error, which was called a potential black eye, but they said there is still hope for restoring the greenback cutthroat trout.
The three-year study, led by University of Colorado researchers and published online in Molecular Ecology on Aug. 28, said that five of the nine populations believed to be descendants of the endangered trout were actually the more common Colorado River cutthroat trout, which look similar.
"They're both brown, and we couldn't tell the difference."
The study said the results imply that the effort has "failed to improve the species' status."
Lead author, Jessica Metcalf, who recently completed her doctorate in ecology and evolutionary biology at the university, was optimistic about the ongoing restoration program because four populations have been identified as "pure greenback cutthroat trout."
Bruce Rosenlund of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is leading the recovery effort, said the agency is reviewing the study. "The report is just a continuation of different expert input provided to the team for consideration for restoration," Rosenlund said.
Colorado and federal biologists have a goal of 20 self-sustaining populations of at least 500 fish each. The cost of the program was not available.
Greenback cutthroat trout were historically found in the drainages of the Arkansas and South Platte rivers in Colorado and a small part of Wyoming. They were declared extinct in 1937 because of overfishing, pollution from mines and competition from nonnative fish. Researchers said remnant populations were found in the 1950s in tributaries and provided brood stock for fish raised in federal and state hatcheries and released in their native habitat. The fish was added to the federal endangered species list in 1978.
The greenback were believed to be in 142 miles of waterways, including in Rocky Mountain National Park, Rosenlund said. The new study, based DNA test results, found the greenback cutthroat trout's range is only 11 miles of streams.
The research results are a setback but state biologists believe the program will succeed over the long term, said Tyler Baskfield, Colorado Division of Wildlife spokesman. "We've been moving fish around in the state since the late 1800s, and now the new science comes in and all of a sudden it's a different playing field," Baskfield said.
"Just give us more money," he added.
University of Colorado professor Andrew Martin, the study's principal investigator, said that while the findings might give the recovery program a "black eye," the hope is that biologists and agencies will move ahead on recovering the species before it goes extinct.
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The big question is, if the niche is adequately fuilled, and they had to do thorough and nearly microscopic examination plus genetic testing to determine the error, then why the hell worry? the ecosystme has its fish that work for it. What difference does it make if one or 2 insiginficant genes or colorations are different?
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The management of cutthroat trout in the U.S. is one of the least known yet best examples of desire for environmental extremism, unfettered regulatory power, and funding by fisheries officers and biologists triumphing over science and common sense. In many ways, it was the warm-up for AGW.
Since the 1500's, science has defined any two individuals as being of the same species if they can breed and produce fertile offspring. This has been boilerplate, and until about the 1980's nobody would have even questioned it. Since all varieties of cutthroat can do this, by any reasonable yardstick, they are all the same species, albeit with minor geographic variances in coloration. In some small areas, due to overfishing or pollution or development, populations have decreased, although overall there are millions of healthy cutthroat throughout the west.
Enter the Endangered Species Act. Since the 1980's the environmental law enforcement community and fisheries biologists have asserted that each minor variant be designated a subspecies or even a completely different species. This paves the way for 1) lots more government money to "study the problem" and "implement solutions" and 2) greatly enhanced regulatory authority to direct the activity of people not only on public lands but also on privately held land. In other words, a group of people changed the definition of a word to feather their own bed financially and accrue unchecked power unto themselves.
Furthermore, a lot of what I would consider unscrupulous fishermen went along with this because it enhanced their hobby (other consequences be damned). I've fished for cutthroat in many states, and would like to in the future. I'm not in favor of wiping life out. I flyfish, but I'm not going to pretend it's anything but a fussy little hobby - one which I love, but it isn't the most important thing in the world. I certainly wouldn't rank it more inportant than commerce or freedom of property owners.
The end result has been that by "splitting" cutthroat into artificial population designations, the fisheries people in question have caused strife and tension between landowners and fishing in general, made ridiculous demands on management of river systems, and in the end, have not solved very many of the problems that do in fact face certain localized populations. Like AGW, the junk non-science was more about money and power than solving any real problems.
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"The report is just a continuation of different expert input provided to the team for consideration for restoration," Rosenlund said. Translation from gummint-speak: "We blew it...."
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I'm sure both species are just as tasty when pan-fried.
That said:
What difference does it make if one or 2 insiginficant genes or colorations are different?
Who knows? And therein lies the rub. Take the yew. Long considered a "trash tree" by loggers due to its incredibly slow growth rate, its bark yields taxol, one of the most powerful new cancer fighting drugs. It turns out that the yew's production of taxol stunts its own growth.
Examine all the new candidates for cancer therapies and you will find a vast majority of them are "bio-pharm" compounds originating in all sorts of unexpected vegetative and animal populations.
A medical student's project involved cutting open frogs for some minor surgical procedure and the stitching them back up. It took a while for the guy to notice how these frogs he laced back up went directly into slimey, muddy tanks and yet did not readily acquire the massive infections that could be expected.
It turns out that frogs dermally secrete a powerful antibiotic, antifungal and antiviral compound that protects them from their moist environment's incubation of diseases. This batrachian compound currently is being developed into a whole new family of powerful antibiotics that may address certain drug resistant "super germs" like staph, VD and strep infections.
The point is, nature has been fine tuning these various creatures for untold billions of years. Our biosphere is a functioning laboratory that has already addressed a host of extremely complex survival issues. Rather than reinventing the wheel, we are leaning to take a page from nature instead.
Who knows what odd frog, trout, South American yam or other possibly endangered species might hold the cure for cancer, AIDS or whatever new plagues are coming down the pike? Far better that we take time now to preserve even these minor specieswithin economically feasible limitsrather than let some wonder cure slip through our fingers.
Perhaps the greenback trout has an ability to live in algae infested waters and thereby has had protective coloration benefits conferred by its verdant hue. Who knows whether world fisheries might not make huge gains by using this trout's possibly algal-resistant physiology to improve fish farming in less clean waters?
Without performing a genomic assay upon the planet's entire biological population, we cannot possibly know which species hold some incredible boon in store for mankind. Better that we play the role of cautious and worthy stewards than see unknown wonders go extinct due to careless heavy-handedness.
The different populations of cutthroats have not been evolving separately for billions of years, but rather, for a short time - since the last Ice Age. It is possible but very unlikely that the kind of difference you describe could happen in that time (at least that different from other populations of cutthroats).
The biopharm angle is one which resonates with me, but it is always in the land of "if" and "may". The potential for a biopharm breakthrough has to be weighed against other factors. It cannot be the only determining one, since the chance of any given organism giving us a cure is vanishingly small. Biopharm potential should be considered, but not overwhelm.
But even a legitimate, proportioned interest in potential miracle cures does not excuse the mismanagement, and the disingenuousness, of the biology and fisheries communities in this situation. You and I are having a logical, rational discussion based on differences of opinion about legitimate issues. By and large, their motivations have been about income stream security and power, their actions have been incompetent, and they have out-and-out lied about both.
If this whole thing is about preserving organisms for potential benefits down the road, then let's say so, and move accordingly and with comptence. If it's about something else, the light of day needs to be shone upon it, and the merits debated openly.
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Biopharm potential should be considered, but not overwhelm.
Agreed, which is why I mentioned, "within economically feasible limits".
But even a legitimate, proportioned interest in potential miracle cures does not excuse the mismanagement, and the disingenuousness, of the biology and fisheries communities in this situation.
Absolutely not. I rank it with the same level of fraud found in "tree farms".
You and I are having a logical, rational discussion based on differences of opinion about legitimate issues. By and large, their motivations have been about income stream security and power, their actions have been incompetent, and they have out-and-out lied about both.
Which should put them on a permanent "No-Grant" list.
If this whole thing is about preserving organisms for potential benefits down the road, then let's say so, and move accordingly and with comptence.
Which is my principal concern.
If it's about something else, the light of day needs to be shone upon it, and the merits debated openly.
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Call me when Hollyweird does the movie on Germans hanging on the Berlin Wall or rotting in the middle of a mine field. Or the last hour of the desperate seeking freedom on a sinking makeshift craft in the South China Sea or the Florida Straights, instead of the usual pro-anyonewhohatesAmerica drivel that they pass off as art entertainment.
Eleven crew from the ABC TV comedy show The Chaser have been detained by police after staging a fake motorcade through Sydney as part of an APEC week stunt.
The team from the satirical TV program The Chaser's War on Everything were in a convoy of three cars and two motorbikes which was reportedly ushered through two checkpoints in Sydney's APEC security "red" zone.
The convoy was pulled over in Macquarie Street on a block adjacent to the InterContinental Hotel, where US President George W Bush is a guest during the APEC summit.
The ABC said Chaser stars Julian Morrow and Chas Licciardello were detained late on Thursday morning following the stunt near the hotel.
Chaser members said they had dressed up a convoy to look like an official Canadian motorcade, on a day during which a number of official motorcades crossed the city.
Southern Cross Broadcasting reported that the convoy carrying the Chaser team passed "through two checkpoints around the hotel before one of The Chaser pranksters jumped out (dressed) as Osama bin Laden".
"They had been waved through, they had three cars ... big black Hummer-style cars decked out with Canadian flags on the front," a reporter said.
"A couple of Chaser team members were in the back of each of these cars and rest of the team were dressed up as bodyguards.
"As many as 11 people were detained and two of those were Chaser team members."
Chaser team member Chris Taylor told the Fairfax website the motorcade comprised "three cars, a couple of motorbikes, and a lot of crew".
He said the Chaser convoy had Canadian flags attached to the cars and "Canada" signs visible in the front windscreen.
"No particular reason we chose Canada," Taylor said.
"We just thought they'd be a country who the cops wouldn't scrutinise too closely, and who feasibly would only have three cars in their motorcade - as opposed to the 20 or so gas guzzlers that Bush has brought with him."
He said the motorcade had been allowed into the red zone, past two sets of gates, before being pulled over on the corner of Bridge and Macquarie streets.
Taylor said Morrow and Licciardello had been taken to Surry Hills police station, and police confirmed the pair had been arrested for breaching the restricted zone.
Chaser crew members had initially been detained in their cars while "police on the ground" waited for special units to arrive, Taylor said.
ABC spokesman Peter Ritchie said ABC lawyers and management were in discussions with police.
"They were shooting for the program, they were at the hotel, police detained them and ABC lawyers and management are with the boys," Mr Ritchie said.
The Southern Cross Broadcasting report said "security services went crazy when they realised something had gone wrong".
"They very quickly detained these people," a reporter said.
Authorities have warned there will be a presumption against bail for people arrested in the APEC security zone.
"The simple message that everybody needs to understand is that if you misconduct yourself during the APEC period in a security zone, there is a jail bed waiting for you," Attorney-General John Hatzistergos said last week.
The Chaser's War on Everything resumed on ABC TV on Wednesday night and included a number of stunts aimed at testing APEC security.
Morrow told News Ltd newspapers last weekend the Chaser team was planning something "extreme" for APEC.
Chaser team members on Wednesday staged a stunt during an anti-APEC protest, with Taylor appearing as a police officer on a pantomime horse - a dig at the fact equine flu has prevented NSW police horses being used for APEC security.
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer denied The Chaser team had revealed a chink in APEC security, saying as they were arrested, the system worked.
But he told an APEC news conference:"Whatever you think of the humour of The Chaser ... they were clearly not going to harm anybody in a physical way.
"They presumably were, as is the nature of their show, aiming to humiliate a lot of well-known people.
"In my particular case on this one, I managed not to see them, so it just shows how lucky you can get," Mr Downer said, smiling.
"The point is they were in any case arrested, so I think the security works."
Police are furious that the Chaser comedians managed to breach APEC security, but they deny the stunt embarrassed authorities in charge of the Sydney summit.
NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Dave Owens said police were investigating "a possible breach of the restricted area".
As a result of the breach, new measures were being added to what he described as a multi-layered security operation.
"I'm not embarrassed at all. What I am is very angry that such a stunt like this would be pulled," Mr Owens said.
"We have 21 world leaders here and while I enjoy, like everyone else, a good laugh, this wasn't funny."
NSW Police Minister David Campbell said he was particularly disappointed The Chaser production team had disregarded specific requests from police not to go too far in their pursuit of satire.
"I don't see a funny side to what's happened today. I don't see a funny side at all," Mr Campbell said.
"I'm extremely concerned people would take the sense of security so lightly."
Mr Campbell refused to criticise the police who reportedly waved The Chaser team through checkpoints.
He congratulated officers who made the arrests.
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I think it would've been hilarious if Julian and Chas were yanked outta their cars, thrown to the ground and had guns stuck in their ears while their faces were shoved through the pavement. It also might be humorous to see their stories on the lighter side of Pound Me In the Ass Aussie Prison for a couple of months...
BARA: A man died and another was injured in a blast at a scrap godown of a steel factory one kilometre south of Bara Bazaar on Wednesday. Officials of the political administration in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency said that labourers Ikhtiar and Lal Gul were playing with scrap metal when it exploded, killing Ikhtiar instantly, and injuring Lal Gul who was rushed to a nearby hospital. The political authorities began an investigation to find the cause of the blast. Sources said the explosion took place when an expired Russian-made missile exploded. Khassadar force line officer Juma Khan owns the steel factory.
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But it's only when the government collects the stuff that the liberals complain . . .
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Hmmm...plastering your supposedly public self on public display hardly qualifies one to argue about privacy. Or do I miss something in the fundamentals here?
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Hmmm...plastering your supposedly public self on public display hardly qualifies one to argue about privacy. Or do I miss something in the fundamentals here?
Heh. There's a reason I've made a point of ignoring every "Join Facebook!" invitation that comes my way . . .
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I'm a recent Facebook newbie.
And there is a control where you can prevent this from taking place. You just have to click it.
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It's an odd duck that joins a social web community, in an effort to enhance their privacy. It is usually the exact opposite. So what's the drama? Sure, the weirdos who are masquerading as something/someone they are not will hate all revelations of personal info, but for the rest of us it's a bit of a bonus.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Long confined to the mountains, Japanese leeches are invading residential areas, causing swelling, itching and general discomfort with their blood-thirsty ways. Yamabiru, or land leeches, have become a problem in 29 of Japan's 47 prefectures, according to the Institute for Environmental Culture, a private research facility in Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo.
BARA: A man died and another was injured in a blast at a scrap godown of a steel factory one kilometre south of Bara Bazaar on Wednesday. Officials of the political administration in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency said that labourers Ikhtiar and Lal Gul were playing with scrap metal when it exploded, killing Ikhtiar instantly, and injuring Lal Gul who was rushed to a nearby hospital. The political authorities began an investigation to find the cause of the blast. Sources said the explosion took place when an expired Russian-made missile exploded. Khassadar force line officer Juma Khan owns the steel factory.
